2016 ShortDocs: Radio Cinema

The 2016 ShortDocs Challenge, in partnership with Manual Cinema (a cinematic shadow puppet performance collective), invited two to three-minute long stories inspired by the cinema and one of four genres: Rom-Com, Sci-Fi, Film Noir and Nature Doc.

For the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge, Third Coast partnered with Manual Cinema - a cinematic shadow puppet performance collective(!) that uses vintage projectors, multiple screens, live-feed cameras, actors and musicians to create film-inspired performances. To inspire submissions, Manual Cinema created four original just-for-Third Coast mini-movies, each based on a different film genre: Rom-Com, Sci-Fi, Film Noir and Nature Doc.

We encouraged ShortDoc-makers to think of their microphone as a camera - use it for close-ups and wide-angle shots, zoom in and out, consider perspective and point-of-view and shadow and light. We also encouraged them to keep cinematic conventions in mind while editing - jump cuts and long fades, flashbacks and chase scenes and meet-cutes, montages and double exposures...

Each ShortDoc had to: 1) be inspired by one of four original Manual Cinema mini-movies 2) be "shot" on two or more locations; 3) incorporate one Manual Cinema original musical composition; 4) be two to three minutes in length

For the 2016 Challenge, Third Coast received over a hundred ShortDocs submissions from twelve different countries. After marathon listening and much deliberation at Third Coast HQ, we crowned four winners. These included the People’s ShortDoc, voted for by hundreds of listeners in six continents. Hide full description

For the 2016 ShortDocs Challenge, Third Coast partnered with Manual Cinema - a cinematic shadow puppet performance collective(!) that uses vintage projectors, multiple screens, live-feed cameras, actors and musicians to create film-inspired performances. To inspire submissions, Manual Cinema created four original just-for-Third Coast mini-movies, each based on a different film genre: Rom-Com, Sci-Fi, Film Noir and Nature Doc. We encouraged ShortDoc-makers to think of their microphone as a camera - use it for close-ups and wide-angle shots, zoom in and out, consider perspective and point-of-view and shadow and light. We also encouraged them to keep cinematic conventions in mind while editing - jump cuts and long fades, flashbacks and chase scenes and meet-cutes, montages and double... Show full description